Traditional dress of Scotland's highlands and isles
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King Edward VII in a tweed Argyll jacket, kilt and Glengarry bonnet (1904)
Highland dress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan (plaid in North America). Specific designs of shirt, jacket, bodice and headwear may also be worn along with clan badges and other devices indicating family and heritage.
Men's Highland dress typically includes a kilt or trews of his clan tartan, along with either a tartan full plaid, fly plaid, or short belted plaid. There are a number of accessories, which may include but are not limited to: a belt, sporran, sgian-dubh, knee-socks with a cuff known as kilt hose, garters, kilt pins and clan badges.
Women's Highland dress is also based on the clan tartan, either that of her birth clan or, if married, that of her spouse's clan if she so chooses. Traditionally, women and girls do not wear kilts but may wear ankle-length tartan skirts, along with a colour-coordinated blouse and vest. A tartan earasaid, sash or tonnag (smaller shawl) may also be worn, usually pinned with a brooch, sometimes with a clan badge or other family or cultural motif.
Highlanddress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan (plaid in North America)...
Highlanders to bear their traditional arms and dress. The 78th Fraser Highlanders, raised in 1757, wore full highlanddress uniform; their equipment was described...
1746 and made wearing "the HighlandDress" — including the kilt — by men and boys illegal in Scotland north of the Highland line running from Perth in...
independent band in 1960 under Colonel George Howard. Standardized wear of Highlanddress, including sporran and Mitchell Tartan kilt, in honor of General William...
lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from Scottish Highlanddress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin, especially on...
and white. However, there are currently no U.S. Army units that use Highlanddress and the wearing of the kilt with U.S. Army uniforms is not permitted...
(/ˈspɒrən/; Scottish Gaelic for 'purse'), a traditional part of male Scottish Highlanddress, is a pouch that functions as a pocket for the kilt. Made of leather...
modern Highland games are largely a 19th-century development, from the period following the Jacobite rebellions and subsequent ban on Highlanddress. By...
behind. It is normally worn as part of Scottish military or civilian Highlanddress, either formal or informal, as an alternative to the Balmoral bonnet...
back and traditionally a tartan pattern. Originating in the Scottish Highlanddress for men, it is first recorded in the 16th century as the great kilt...
versions of Aboyne Dress in use. Some consider the Aboyne as quite suited to the graceful movements of the national dances. The Aboyne Highland Games, established...
items of Highlanddress including kilts (although an exception was made for the Highland regiments) with the intent of suppressing Highland culture. The...
government's policy of cultural suppression against Highland culture culminated in 1747 when the Dress Act 1746 (part of the Act of Proscription 1746), which...
rank of lieutenant and above. This is worn with Highlanddress, and has a square cut away front like a dress coat, but the tails are cut significantly shorter...
Balmoral bonnet Traditional Scottish bonnet or cap worn with Scottish Highlanddress. Barretina A floppy fabric pull-on hat, usually worn with its top flopped...
Formal wear or full dress is the Western dress code category applicable for the most formal occasions, such as weddings, christenings, confirmations, funerals...
traditional Scottish hat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highlanddress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet, dating to at least the 16th...
century (and probably earlier) as part of traditional female Highlanddress. It was worn as a dress – a long, feminine version of the masculine belted plaid –...
plaid, is a long piece of tartan fabric, most often worn as part of a Highlanddress. It usually matches the tartan of the kilt. A modern full plaid is pleated...
though a wide variety of coats, overcoats, and rain gear are worn with Highlanddress to deal with inclement weather, the Inverness cape has come to be almost...
to keep it in place. The belted plaid was a standard item of men's Highlanddress from the late 16th century until the middle of the 18th century. It...
primarily used for close combat, part of traditional Scottish male Highlanddress. It is also referred to as an armpit dagger or a sleeve dagger in English...
century to the mid 17th century Doublet (Highlanddress), a formal jacket worn with Scottish highlanddress Doublet (dominoes), a domino tile in which...
wear a turban in place of the standard-issue wedge cap. Highlanddress is a special order of dress reserved exclusively for those cadets who are pipe band...
in 1823. The principal aims of the Society are the preservation of Highlanddress and the Gaelic language; to support loyal, peaceable manly conduct and...
about any real effect from the banning of Highlanddress (which was repealed in 1782 anyway).: 57–60 The Highland Clearances saw further actions by clan...
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